1904. 
7oi 
THE PRIZE CLIPPINGS. 
Prizes are awarded this week to the fol¬ 
lowing clippings : 
The Poor Rich Boy. 
Three handsome boys, about 19, well 
dressed, well kept, and decent looking, passed 
our office this morning. They are sons of 
well-to-do parents—boys who have a little 
pocket money whether they work or not. If 
ibe style of clothes should completely change 
in I lie next 30 days each of these boys would 
have a complete new outfit. He would go to 
the store and order it, and they would be 
"sent in.” They are not bad boys; they think 
nothing, however, of spending .$2 at the bowl¬ 
ing alley, and borrowing the money from 
some other boys to pay for it. An old gen¬ 
tleman who sat in our office and saw the boys 
pass said : “Poor devils—they have no show. 
Luck is against them.” And what he said is 
true. Life is a struggle, success is a battle, 
which "goes to the strong. Strength is not in¬ 
herited. Blood tells, but it only tells for 
men and women who have character enough 
to work, to grow strong, to dig their toes in 
the ground and grapple with life. These boys 
in the days when they should he gaining 
moral and spiritual strength are idling. When 
they get into the thick of the battle their 
muscles will be flabby. Wealth will help them 
little. Their education, however good, unless 
education trains them to be strong, will avail 
them nothing. All that will count when the 
test comes will be such moral fiber as there is 
in their souls. Failure will bump, them, mis¬ 
fortune will jostle them. Unless they can 
stand up and set their jaws and fight, they 
are goners. The boy who has to work hard 
with his hands, to get his education, to get 
"his start” in life, is training his moral mus¬ 
cle for the fight. lie is ready when the shock 
of combat comes. lie is fuu armored for the 
fight; he knows what it is to stint himself, to 
do without comforts and luxuries; he is more 
afraid of a crooked dollar than he is of a 
shabby coat, lie can go without a shave a 
week if he hasn't the dime to pay for it. 
Dirty hands do not keep him awake nights, 
but a dirty conscience would. Such boys have 
a mortgage on life. They are not poor boys. 
The “poor boys” are the boys who have an 
easy time of it. If they succeed, it is a sign 
that they have not been loafing; it is a sign 
that some way they have been gaining 
strength. If your boy is loafing, having a 
good time, for heaven’s sake stop him, put 
some dirty clothes on him that he has earned 
himself, and let him have the new clothes 
oniy when he lias paid for them. Too many 
boys these days are going to the bad because 
lheir mothers insist on sending them. They 
are tlie poor rich boys. Pity them.—Ellicott 
City, Md., Times. 
The Dog and the Sheep. 
After midsummer one looking for a farmer 
is (pule likely to' be told, “You will find him 
down in the pasture beyond the corner of the 
wood lot cutting brush.” The pasture is the 
foundation of a farm's prosperity, paying 
ready money through the milch cows without 
outlay, and bringing on the young stock six 
months nearer to coming in profit. Cutting 
brush serves a double purpose in improve¬ 
ment of file pasture, so long as a few con¬ 
venient thickets are left through which fly- 
tormented stock can rush occasionally and rid 
themselves of pests. The grass gets the more 
sun and water and fertility of the soil, re¬ 
lieved of stronger rivals, and after the family 
excitement of bonfires a bountiful fertilization 
of ashes, of greater value than the ashes from 
the fireplace and the stove, being richer in 
the elements of bark and leaves, while the un¬ 
burned leaves and twigs afford a grateful 
mulch and eventual fertilization after the 
slower combustion of decay. All the same the 
brush scythe and the bonfire mark the decay 
of New England farming. Every hour spent 
in cutting brush is an hour lost from other In¬ 
dustry, and every burned brush heap a waste. 
Sheep should have kept the brush down and 
the pastures fertilized better than with ashes. 
Instead of charging the farm with the hours 
spent in clearing, it should be credited with 
profits of wool and mutton or lamb. It has 
come lo very nearly the point: Shall Connec¬ 
ticut keep sheep and be rich or keep dogs and 
lie poor? Doubtless there is much poetry and 
much foundation for it, about the dog, the 
friend of man. Dog owners, too. are in a 
small minority, however self-assertive. And 
Hie dog tax pays for the sheep that are killed 
by dogs—or that are proved to be. But noth¬ 
ing pays for the sheep which lose their young, 
which “don't do well,” which have had a 
scare some night and are off their feed. With 
sheep the old line of Connecticut farmers 
could hold their ancestral acres in comfort. 
Nothing less than a strict regulation of the 
keeping of dogs can make sheep keeping profit¬ 
able except in those regions where all strange 
dogs are shot at sight.—Hartford Courant. 
The Story of a Cow. 
Mr. August Barkage, who farms across the 
river, has just had another experience with 
a cow. A few weeks ago it will be remem¬ 
bered that an umbrella fixer stole a cow from 
him which he traded to Peter St. Cin, of 
Portage, for a pony and cart with which lie 
disappeared. Some three weeks ago another 
one of the Barkage cows disappeared from the 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
pasture, and the fence was found up and in 
good repair and all gates closed. Search was 
made everywhere in the vicinity and in that 
part of the county, but in vain, until Tues¬ 
day afternoon, when a sou of Mr. Barkage 
climbed on to the top of a straw stack in the ] 
pasture and there he saw the missing cow 
wedged down between two stacks—the new 
straw stack and an old one. She was covered 
entirely with the exception ol’ her head, with 
straw, and she could not move forwards or 
sideways. During the 18 or 19 days in which 
she was there she had had no water and noth¬ 
ing to eat but straw. The old straw was wet 
and it is thought she sucked enough moisture 
out of it to keep her alive. She was released 
and is getting along all right, ft is supposed 
that she walked up on top of the old straw 
stack and fell into the space between it and 
the new stack.—Alton, Ill., Weekly Telegraph. 
FRUIT NOTES. 
Summer Pruning. —I do not believe there 
would be anything gained by our friend’s 
pruning his young trees this Fall. The trees 
have not long to grow yet before Winter, and 
there would be nothing gained so far as forc¬ 
ing that growth into other parts of the tree. 
The trees would hardly have time to heal 
over properly before freezing weather came 
on. The early Spring pruning would be the 
most desirable. c. m. miller. 
Illinois. 
If the young apple trees have been properly 
taiven care of the first three years, we see no 
great harm in letting them go a year without 
pruning. We prefer to do most of our prun¬ 
ing when leaves are off the trees. Light prun¬ 
ing can be done at any time without harm to 
the tree. But we should much prefer to let 
trees go than set many wood butchers at 
them, especially when the foliage was on. 
Massachusetts. • H. o. mead. 
Second-Crop Raspberries. —We have about 
500 hills of Earhart raspberry that we have 
used for propagation of plants. We annually 
gather the main crop in June, which com¬ 
pares favorably with Gregg in yield and mar¬ 
ket value. The plantation is within 10 rods 
of two houses, each of which keeps a large 
flock of poultry, which run at large and de¬ 
stroy much; in fact, almost all of the later 
crop. We have been gathering from the 
bushes for dessert and pies for five or six 
weeks, but have never put any on the market, 
but think with a patch of this size on good 
ground one could depend upon several bushels 
of fruit each week. How it would sell out of 
season we cannot say, but believe it would 
bring a good price. At any rate, it is appre¬ 
ciated by our people here at the farm, and it 
certainly would be desirable for planting in 
small plantations for family use. 
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looking for the best early tomatoes for this 
section. Chalk’s Jewel has been tested on our 
place two seasons. While satisfied the first 
year that it was not a strictly early tomato, 
we were so much pleased with its size and 
smooth, perfect form, its productiveness and 
certainty of ripening all over without crack or 
blemish, that we planted an acre this season 
to come in as second early. In the points 
mentioned it was not disappointing, and even 
more satisfactory than last year, but it 
proved soft and too tender to ship well. On 
a few hills, where the cutworms took the 
surrounding plants and gave the rest plenty 
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the following statement : These two hills, 
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ripe tomatoes gathered at one time. From 
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picked for market as shown by the caps left 
where fruit was pulled off, and 43 green ones, 
the smallest over an inch in diameter, still 
remained, making a total of 122 tomatoes on 
one vine, and it is still green, blooming and 
setting more fruit. Plant No. 2 had a total 
of 116 tomatoes. The largest specimen was 
414 inches in diameter. Many others were 
over three inches, and very few were less 
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from stem to blossom end specimens from 
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the Acme and its firmness and qualities as a 
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